Andy Jackson

We are pleased to announce that #nttw10 conference will take place in October 14-16 at the Filmoteka Narodowa - Instytut Audiowizualny, Warsaw! 🤩

Registration and call for proposals will open on February 12th at noon CET at mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait10!

New DPC blog post: Supporting COPTR, our community-owned tool registry www.dpconline.org/blog/support... #DigiPres

New blog post: Registries of Good Practice: Project Closure & Legacy Plan

When you can't pay for things the currency of payment is psychic... Contributing back to the commons in digital preservation means being uncomfortable. The impact of your discomfort is greater than you think.

Have a look at what paid- and non-paid services you are making use of in your #digipres stack. Take a moment to be uncomfortable; take time to contribute back to the commons.

exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/when-yo...

#GLAM #OpenSource #Commons #Community #Contributing #ProfessionalDevelopment

...with thanks to @pimoroni.com for making such a lovely little device.

Booting up a Badgewear Tufty Getting started with programming the Badgewear Tufty smart interactive badge.

New blog post: Booting up a Badgewear Tufty

What is "bit rot"? How safe are your data? Researching this for future episodes on the subject brought me to the Centre of Computing History in Cambridge www.computinghistory.org.uk where I talked to Adrian Page-Mitchell, who showed me a "decaying" laser disc (BBC Domesday project).

Thank you!

New blog post: Re-launching COPTR!

Everyone wants to blame the content: misinformation, bots, polarisation. That mistakes catalysts and symptoms for the underlying causes. The crisis isn’t bad information, it's that the very information infrastructure we relied on to create a shared understand of the world had changed completely.

📢 23 new PRONOM Unique Identifiers, 23 new signatures and 19 updates 📢 Take a look at the newest version of PRONOM, the online registry maintained by The National Archives (UK) that helps identify digital file formats to support long-term preservation👉🏽 […]

📢 23 new PRONOM Unique Identifiers, 23 new signatures and 19 updates 📢 Take a look at the newest version of PRONOM, the online registry maintained by The National Archives (UK) that helps identify digital file formats to support long-term preservation👉🏽 buff.ly/auPnyeq

Joint preservation workshop between KBNL and NLN - Digital Preservation Coalition DPC Blog RSS Feed

New DPC blog is up! KBNL visits the National Library of Norway for a joint preservation workshop — learning, sharing, and building connections in Mo i Rana. This is the DPC community in action! 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️ buff.ly/jTu6saO

Still time to sign up for the DPC's event on Preserving eBooks where we will be hearing from @wisealic.bsky.social, @jasminemulliken.bsky.social, @northgardner.bsky.social and more. Further details and registration here: www.dpconline.org/events/event...

Media Notes for Justification of the Orphan Makers Do not be quick to put the boot in Those accused of shooting A peaceful mother in the face (three times) Her demise may well be justified Our population now is radicalised have you noticed how women often fail To even obey the voices of the male?) And this was no run of the mill "mum" She was a deviant one A lesbian And we cannot dismiss How the sapphic can put men with pistols Into a panic She may not have committed the sin of being brown But her profile page declared a pronoun! A typical trait of an enemy of the state But wait A little more She called herself a "poet" too And women like that are often shrews To take language and create a rhythm Another clue to domestic terrorism So I say again From autocue to you The world is surely a better place If we shoot love and peace and protest in the face

I wrote this poem the day after Renee Good was murdered - it’s about how the media and politicians immediately dehumanised her. I have had a few people ask “who wrote it?” So I am putting it up again - written in anger

He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known? How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly conseque...

This story is one of lapses in cybersecurity and digital preservation. I read it thinking of Palantir and its access to NHS data… what could go wrong for the people of the UK? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The State of Social Media Archiving Tools The State of Social Media Archiving Tools A Report from Flickr Foundation Research Overview: This report systematically reviews social media archiving tools, focusing primarily on platform download ...

It can be tricky to preserve social media. Here is a @flickrfdn.bsky.social report "The State of Social Media Archiving Tools:"

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Things keep reminding me of youtu.be/6T2zUEiVQU4?... - it's all rather depressing.

Trying to find ways to describe how digital media work, so different tactics (emulation, migration, etc.) are clearer. Does this start to help?

Brewster Kahle stands in front of a row of servers at the Internet Archive.

If you've ever wondered about the infrastructure behind the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, check out this teardown ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...

The deadline for submitting a proposal for the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association annual conference is 30 Jan digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-.... The conference is 15-16 June and this year’s theme is Sustainability (broadly defined).

If you’re considering automating some Archivematica workflows in 2026 then here are some utility scripts I just finished for BFI colleagues. Hope they can be of assistance!

github.com/bfidatadigip...

Happy New Year!

#digipres #Archivematica #AtoM #borndigital #python

It's a reliable *shocked Pikachu face* line for audiences, but I have to explain that when we started archiving Ukrainian cultural heritage websites, the instability of the power grid in the Bay Area was a bigger impediment and risk than Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.

A final festive post on my @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy blog: Byte Christmas www.dpconline.org/blog/byte-ch... #DigiPres #SorryNotSorry

The OPF Winter Newsletter is now live 🎄 ! Catch up on the latest from the OPF and find out what we have been working on as the year draws to a close. Read here 👉 mailchi.mp/openpreserva...

Really excited about this DPC members event: Copy That Floppy... LIVE! www.dpconline.org/events/event... - includes the perfect Christmas gift idea for the #digipres enthusiast!

More good news for the new year! We'll be hosting an official re-launch event for the COPTR tool discovery wiki! Please come along if you can... https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/579/-/dpclinic-january-relaunching-coptr

Season’s greetings from the DPC 🎄Thank you to everyone across our global community for the ideas and good cheer you bring to #digitalpreservation. We wish you a lovely break and look forward to more conversations in 2026! buff.ly/ehIifit

🌟 Happy Holidays from the Digital Preservation Coalition 🌟

As we wrap up 2025, #DPC staff are getting ready to close our laptops and take a break. It has been an incredible year, and we're grateful to everyone across our global membership and wider […]

[Original post on digipres.club]

TIL about github.com/midwork-find..., a DuckDB ext. to query web archive CDX APIs directly from SQL. i.e., query Wayback Machine & Common Crawl CDX APIs like they were database tables!

#webarchiving @archive.org @waybackmachine.bsky.social

h/t @atomotic.com via @inkdroid.org(merveilles.town/@ink)